[Current location: City of Maok]
"What the hell do you mean you will halt the supplies?!" – asked Godfrey in anger.
"I-it is not our fault sir." – said the sailor.
"The sea became way too dangerous with icy cold weather and sea monsters are only making things worse."
"Our ships got beaten up too much as well, we need to repair them here before we can even head back to the empire…. And after that, we will need to completely halt off any attempts at resupplying this place until the threat of the sea monsters had been dealt somewhat."
"What about the merfolk?! Did you spotted any of them!? Or at least some traces left behind them?!" – asked Godfrey.
"N-no! We have found nothing! There did not seemed like anybody did it either!" – replied the nervous sailor.
"…"
(Bullshit. There is no way this ain't merfolk doing!) – thought pissed off Godfrey.
(If not, then how is there so many problems popping up left and right after they had left?! There is no bloody way this ain't manmade!)
"…"
"How long would it take to deal with the problem?"
"…"
"Hey. Reply!"
"…"
"1…. Week…. Up to even an entire month." – replied the sailor.
"!?"
"UP TO MONTH!? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN?!" – shouted Godfrey.
"It's the weather and the fact that these monsters can live underwater!"
"Our means of fighting underwater are extremely limited and even bigger problem is the current weather, making the water extremely cold."
"…..And if I'm honest as experiment sailor…. This problem may even last up to 2 months or more…. And that is under a assumption that the current things won't get worse."
"If stronger and more deadly sea monsters show up or maybe the weather gets even worse… Then it could end up affecting the entire length of the cleanup."
"…"
"Can't we….. Can't we just request just a single one supply support from the empire? Like a massive one that we would sustain us for long?" – asked Godfrey.
"There is a limit of what we can get from plundering and hunting monsters with editable meat."
"…."
"I…. I don't know if this will be approved… I will talk with my superiors about it…. But even if they would agreed to it, the transport itself would definitely take way longer than before, considering how last time went." – said the sailor.
"…"
"I understand…. Dismissed." – said Godfrey before moments later the sailor bowed his head and left the room.
"…"
"GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!" – shouted Godfrey before he then sat down.
"IT IS OBVIOUS THE MERFOLK DOING! YOU BLOODY IDIOTS!"
"…"
"General…. If I may." – said the high paladin while holding the communication orb.
"Iron Will wishes to speak with you and he is saying this is urgent."
"…"
*Sigh*
"What is it?" – asked Godfrey as he took the communication orb.
"Hey…. Buddy…. Em… Good and bad news…" – said Iron Will.
"Good news, we managed to conquer that place you asked us….. We managed to not suffer any major loses or anything while completely annihilating every single vampire…."
"…"
"Bad news?" – asked Godfrey.
"The food…. It was not here." – said Iron Will.
"By the looks of things, they moved all supplies away from here before we even got here."
"Oh for the love of….. FUCK!" – shouted Godfrey.
"…"
*Sigh*
"Burn down that town and then head back… This is order."
"Understood." – replied Iron Will before ending the call.
"…"
"Fuck me! The hell is going on?!"
(We finally started pushing back the alliance as well as started summoning more angels to join our side.)
(But out of nowhere our supply line was completely wrecked!?)
(This isn't good… Without it we have already lost the territories we just recently conquered…. We won't lose the territory we had for longer time, since we had already fortified our defenses…. But at this rate this won't end well.)
(This isn't the first attack that resulted in us not getting any supplies from the enemies…. They know! They fucking know that our supply line isn't working!)
"…"
"What about these so called "tanks"?"
"Did you figured out anything?"
"No sir…. No yet…. But our mechanics are saying…. Well, they are saying "stuff"." – said the high paladin.
"They are saying that they had never before seen anything like these so called "magic engines"."
"At first they believed that it was dwarven creation, but after confirming information from the adventures, we found out that it was a doing of one person."
"The Doctor."
"Supposable also known by the other name, the Phantasia."
"One of the most skilled and well known craftsman among the adventures."
"He is the inventory of the magic guns and apparently he is also the creator of these "tanks"."
"According to our engineers, these engines are beyond anything they worked with before and they said that learning how they worked properly as well as how to mass produce will take time."
"What about the "tanks" themselves? Can we use them?" – asked Godfrey.
"Yes sir. We are able to use them…. But the number of them we have available on our end is not enough." – said the high paladin.
"We only stole few of them from our enemy and we had also salvaged the destroyed ones."
"In short, we really can't use it against our enemies…. Fuck me." – said Godfrey.
"…"
"Well… I guess I have no option."
"I will be joining the battle with my own order."
"!?"
"Please reconsider this! You are-"
"Yes, I know I'm needed to hold the front, this is why I never fought with my order and focused only on the defense."
"And yes, those were my very own words."
"But the situation has changed."
"At this rate we will be pushed back and the only way to stop it would be for me to deal a massive blow to the alliance, halting their advance while giving the time for the supply ships to get here."
"This is the only way to do things."
[Meanwhile: Iron Will.]
"Okay. The orders were clear! Burn down the whole thing!" – said Iron Will.
"After we set the whole town on fire, we are moving out immediately before we get attacked!"
"…"
(Well, even though we had not obtained any food… We are still making progress, right?) – thought Iron Will.
(Not only that, but apparently we managed to secure some tanks as well!)
(I wonder if we can mass produce them…. I really want to ride one myself.)
(Especially that one from that video. What was it called? The "Devastator" or something?)
(Yea…. I really and I mean, REALLY WANT IT!)
(I wonder if-)
"ENEMEY ATTACK!" – shouted the empire soldier.
"ENEMEY FORCES ARE COMING THIS WAY!"
"!"
"What is going on?!" – asked Iron Will as he ran as quickly as possible to the soldier.
"Are vampires attacking us?"
"No! Those things are not vampires!" – replied panicking soldier, confusing Iron Will who then quickly climbed up on the top of the wall and took out his spy glass.
"…"
"Oh…..Shit."
(A toy monsters, some freaks that looks like they were stitched together and some mechanical golems?!)
"THE ENEMY IS THE DOCTOR!" – shouted Iron Will.
"DO NOT LET YOUR GUARD DOWN! THESE FREAKS ARE DANGEROUS!" – shouted Iron Will, confusing the empire solder.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! GET READY TO BATTLE!" – shouted the high paladin as he then started ordering the soldiers around.
"…"
"So, the so called "Doctor" finally joined the fight?" – asked the high paladin as he climbed on top of the wall.
"Yea…. Don't let your guard down… This guy is far too unpredictable." – said Iron Will.
"But why is he only joining the war now? There was no report of anybody like or monsters fighting? Was there even a plague mentioned at all in any of the reports we had?"
"Nope…. I don't think so." – said the high paladin as he took the spyglass from the Iron Will to observe the incoming army.
"Ugh They are ugly."
"I guess his taste is….?"
"?!"
"Hey. From what I know, the Doctor has a bird like head that is also something mask, right?"
"Yes?" – replied Iron Will.
"Well… I've just spotted the fucker." – said the high paladin as he saw a giant humanoid monster figure with large arms that had extremely long claws, alongside a tail who also was wearing a top hat and coat.
"…"
"Huh… So, we are late….. No matter." – said Phantasia as he lead his army.
"Huh? Weren't we send here to help them out?" – asked Maparapara.
"Nah. This wasn't our goal." – said Phantasia.
"From the very beginning, we wanted to just make a mess."
"You know what that means, right?"
"…"
"Murder everybody?" – asked Maparapara.
"Murder everybody." – replied Phantasia.
"!"
"THEY ARE COMING!" – shouted the empire soldier as the army of monsters led by Doctor was approaching the city…. Before then suddenly stopping.
"?"
"What are they doing." – asked the alarmed high paladin.
"…"
"Well then…. How about we start the show?" – asked Doctor as he snapped his fingers, before moments later several golems with a large barrels on their backs walked forward, before then getting on all fours, aiming with their barrels at the town.
"!?"
"Oh…. That can't be good?!" – said Iron Will.
"…"
"Aim... Fire." – said Doctor, ordering his golems to unleashed their attacks, firing a giant sphere of fire that rained down at the empire forces.
"DEPLOY THE BARRIERS!" – shouted the high paladin, ordering the priest and paladins to immediately deploy their barriers in order to block the incoming projectiles.
The spheres of fire came crushing down, but were easily blocked by the empire forces…. Or so they thought.
"!?"
"FIRE! THE FIRE IS SPREADING!"
"HELP! HELP ME!"
"!?"
"Wait, what!?" – said confused Iron Will as he looked around and noticed fire suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
"…"
"Hey, they blocked it." – said Maparapara while using spyglass.
"Was that your bright? I was honestly expecting…. I don't know… A nuke?"
"Where in the bloody hell do you think I will get a nuke? I don't even know how to make one in real life." – said Doctor.
"And look again you idiot. You are not seeing a full picture."
"?"
"…"
"!"
"OH YOU BASTARD! YOU SET THEM ON FIRE?!" – said Maparapara while laughing.
"Yeb." – replied Doctor.
"Specialty of the dwarves."
"Burning everything on fire."
"I've told you before."
"Our plan is to make our presence known."
"And the best way to do it, is completely burn down everything alongside our enemies."
"It is simple, isn't it?"
"Just burn everything the hell down."